Feb 4, 2025 · This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, released on Feb. 4, 2025, shows the gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye.A far smaller blue dwarf galaxy went through the Bullseye’s center, leaving nine star-filled rings. Astronomers using Hubble identified eight visible rings, more than previously detected by any telescope in any galaxy, and confirmed a ninth using ...

6 days ago · Hubble and Keck’s follow-up observations also helped the researchers prove which galaxy plunged through the center of the Bullseye — a blue dwarf galaxy to its center-left. This relatively tiny interloper traveled like a dart through the core of the Bullseye about 50 million years ago, leaving rings in its wake like ripples in a pond.

2 days ago · The team later nicknamed the galaxy the “Bullseye.” Hubble and Keck Observatory’s follow-up observations also helped the researchers prove which galaxy plunged through the center of the Bullseye — a blue dwarf galaxy to its center-left. This relatively tiny interloper traveled like a dart through the core of the Bullseye about 50 ...

1 day ago · Hubble captured a "cosmic bullseye" with galaxy LEDA 1313424, according to NASA. After finding the first eight rings with Hubble, the science team confirmed a ninth ring using data from the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. Most other galaxies discovered have a maximum of two or three rings.

Feb 4, 2025 · LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. Hubble has confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed a ninth.

5 days ago · NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured one of the most astonishing sights in the universe—a galaxy with nine concentric rings. This massive galaxy, LEDA 1313424, now nicknamed the Bullseye, appears to be rippling with star-filled rings, all created by a smaller blue dwarf galaxy that shot straight through its core like a cosmic arrow.

Feb 4, 2025 · LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. High-resolution imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed a ninth.

5 days ago · Hubble's timing was impeccable. "We're catching the Bullseye at a very special moment in time," Pieter van Dokkum, an astronomer at Yale University and co-author of the study, said in a statement. ...

5 days ago · Not far from the larger galaxy is a smaller one, seen in visible light images using the Hubble Space Telescope. Observations taken using the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI), which is optimized for visible blue wavelengths, revealed that this smaller galaxy is not only close to Bullseye, at a distance of just 130,000 light-years, but linked.

5 days ago · Now, astronomers have revealed the spectacular result of this record-breaking collision: nine starry rings, which is six more than any other galaxy known to scientists. LEDA 1313424 was...